Yeung Kwong

Yeung Kwong (1926-16 May 2015) was the President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions from 1980 to 1988, succeeding Chan Yaocai and preceding Lee Chark-tim.

Biography
Yeung Kwong was born in Hong Kong in 1926, and he joined the tramway workers' union in 1948 and led a fare conductors' strike the following year. Yeung came to serve as Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions from 1962 to 1980, and then served as its President from 1980 to 1988. In 1967, he led the leftist riots against British rule in Hong Kong, doing so with the backing of the Communist Party of China. From 1973 to 1987, he served as a local deputy to the National People's Congress. Yeung died in 2015.